Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Universal Channel (DStv 117) on MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV platform
erroneously broadcast an "obituary" of Remembering Madiba on Tuesday
night about the frail elderly statesman Nelson Mandela - who is very
much alive - the TV channel is now a profusely apologising for the
"technical error"

However, the TV Station has since released an apology.

Read the Apology after cut..

"Like
any international broadcaster, Universal Networks holds obituaries
ready for every major statesman in the word," says Universal Networks
International which programmes the Universal Channel on DStv, after the
mistake.

"Universal Networks wishes to offer a sincere and
heartfelt apology for the airing of such an announcement for Nelson
Mandela which was broadcast last night on the Universal Channel due to a
technical error by our team."

"We unreservedly apologise to the
Mandela family, to Universal Channel viewers and to DStv subscribers for
the alarm and offense caused by this error. Our thoughts and best
wishes are with Madiba and his family for a speedy and full
recovery,"says Universal Networks International.

She is well known in Nollywood most especially in the
Yoruba genre. This single mother, who floated a foundation a while ago,
Pinkies Foundations, Iyabo Ojo, has been having issues with lesbians who
have become a pain in the neck for her.

When she was asked what
her reaction was on the Pinkie Foundation that’s believed to be a group
founded for lesbians she said “A lot of people had different impressions
about when we started, because of the name, the sexy Pink Ladies.

So
they thought it was a lesbian group, but 80 percent of the women in the
group are married with kids. And I am not someone who supports Lesbi. I
don’t have a problem with those who practice it, it’s their choice, but
I do not believe in it because I don’t think it’s normal. So when
people make such accusation, I just laugh.

I read a paper
recently with the headline Iyabo Ojo in trouble over lesbian Party and I
laughed. I do not want to talk bad about lesbians but I am not someone
who supports it, and I don’t like them giving wrong impression about
what I do, because I don’t want lesbians coming to me, pinging me or
texting me and I have to start insulting or rebuffing them.

I
have actually done that. The media is actually sending the wrong
message, when you talk about my group being a lesbian group, because I
do not support Lesbi, I do not believe in it, I do not encourage it. I
have not been and never will I be part of that.”

On if she has a
man in her life, “Yes, I have a man in my life and I believe in the
normal way of life. I think it’s not normal, I think it’s mental
dysfunction of anybody who does that.

I don’t see it as something
that is right. I’m sorry if it sounds offensive to lesbians but I do
not appreciate it. When they do it, it’s their life. I don’t condemn
them for what they do, but I’m not a part of it.

Thanking fully,
I’m using this medium to say it out to lesbians, they should stop
texting me or pinging me, because I am not a lesbian and I do not
appreciate it.

When they do that I would insult them, so they should please stop peddling all this rumors because it is not true,” she said.

Nollywood actress Ruky Sanda has just completed work on her new movie, ‘Keeping My Man’.

The actress continues in her capacity as a producer with this new movie which she claims will be a blockbuster.

The Lagos State University graduate of Banking and Finance told NET via telephone, ‘I
have put in a lot of work into this movie. It’s quite different from
all of my other movies and I hope that couples will have something to
learn from it’.

The movie which tells the story of three sets of couples going through relationship challenges features Ini Edo, Ramsey Nouah, Monalisa Chinda, Kenneth Okoli, Alex Ekubo and Rukky Sanda herself.